Hail to Mighty Stevie G!

Liverpool did their “depress the crap out of you and then pull of a stunner” charade again in the FA Cp final last Saturday! What a match! Nearly as good as but not on a par with the Champions League final last year!

I watched the game in the Tin Whistle Pub (Irish Pub) here in Dalian. I was the only one with a ‘Pool shirt on, although there were a few Liverpool fans there, including the landlord! There were also quite a few Happy Hammers fans: real ones with 10-year season tickets, kicking themselves that they weren’t at home watching the match in the Millennium Stadium! Had a good bit of banter with them!

The place was pretty packed and the atmosphere was good. Better than watching it at home. Liverpool played shit in the first half and rightly depressed me. They didn’t look like making anything of the game. But fair play o Stevie Gerrard for grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck and banging in 2 classy goals! And well done Reina for pulling off some great penalty saves, making up for his mistake earlier on!

I did sample some of the draught Guinness that the Tin Whistle has recently got in! Yeah, it was quite good! Just need to train the barmaid up a bit more on the famous 2-part pouring technique!

We have sports meeting in the Uni on Thursday and Friday, so I want to try to head to Tai Shan in Shandong province for the long weekend. Should be good cos the summer season hasn’t kicked in and it’s just after the May holiday!